The book that comes before a handwriting workbook.
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8 real pages from the printed book. Tap any page to see it full size.
Ask a four-year-old to write an a before they can draw a circle and a straight line, and you will get a fight rather than a letter. Handwriting is built out of shapes. Circles, straight lines, crosses, arches and curves come first, and a child who has practised those is ready for letters in a way that no amount of drilling the alphabet will achieve.
Inside: warm-up strokes, straight lines, zig-zags, waves and loops. Shape pages for circles, crosses, squares, triangles, arches, slanted lines and spirals, each one traced dark, then lighter, then on their own.
Long tracing paths right across the page, wavy roads, bumpy hills, zig-zags and steps, for the skill nobody names: keeping a pencil moving without lifting it.
Only then, the first easy letters: l, i, t, o, c, a, d, n and m, plus numbers 0 to 9. Big guide lines and only four slots per row, because small boxes are the main reason a pre-schooler's writing looks messy. Their hand is not small, their pencil control is.
Free practice pages on big lines. 64 pages, one skill per page, nothing cluttered. Two or three pages is a good day at this age. Circle the best one in every row together.
